An intersection of people, ideas, and music
Oregon ArtsWatch
November 20, 2019
Nexus Vocal Ensemble brings impressive technique and spiritual power to Shaw, Buxtehude, and Barnwell.
Nexus Vocal Ensemble brings impressive technique and spiritual power to Shaw, Buxtehude, and Barnwell.
Robert Swinston talks about restaging two of Merce Cunningham’s masterworks of the ’90s, “BIPED” and “Beach Birds.”
Evan Lewis considers OJMCHE’s exhibition of artifacts from the career of a musical legend
Amy Leona Havin draws on her Israeli dance roots for “mekudeshet,” a dance about how we make things sacred
Work begins on the $51 million Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, a long-held dream for the city’s center-in-the-making.
A new concert series dedicated to bringing world-class musicians and composers to southern Oregon with the purpose of musicially addressing challenging social issues was inaugurated this October when Anima Mundi Productions co-founders, composer Ethan Gans-Morse and poet Tiziana DellaRovere, launched The Heart
There are a handful of things that make a city’s musical culture feel complete. You need several symphony orchestras and large choirs, and they all have to be pretty damn good. You also need several smaller choral and instrumental ensembles overlapping with
Gallery owner Jennifer DeCarlo talks about moving from artist to art dealer, art fairs, and the place of visual art.
As Ilana Sol’s new film about war and reconciliation screens this week, a look back at the Portland filmmaker’s first documentary
This drama of working-class life is difficult and ambitious — and Linfield College’s production will leave you gobsmacked.
FearNoMusic commemorates the Portland murder of immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by white supremacists.
A unique sense of color highlights a photographic journey to the world’s second most populous nation.
The world premiere of POWER in July of 2019 was an evening-length work, yet Reggie Wilson was generous enough with his energy to give a post-show interview after the second performance. When asked how he envisioned the world that the piece so
Some thoughts on theater etiquette, on ideas about race and cultural preference, and on what shows to see this week in Portland.
A Mozart Players concert explores music by living composers—and raises questions of preparation and appropriated meaning.
Portland Book Fest turns the page, downtown gets a new museum, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like … already?
What’s up? Big bands, big choirs, chamber classical, and hybrid music from Indonesia and the British Isles.
A dancer’s injury at BodyVox leads to a cascade of role changes in the company’s Shakespeare double bill.
A round-up of Portland-area gallery offerings in November.
Adleane Hunter directs Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of identity, economics, and race.
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